Chaos in One Innocent Equation

What is chaos? It is a seemingly random behavior exhibited in a system, with sensitive dependence on initial conditions. What we mean by ‘seemingly random’, is that this behavior is very unpredictable — so much so that it may appear random. This random appearance is...

Interpretations of Dynamical Laws

THE BEGINNING OF ALL LAWS The other day I was reading Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky’s ‘Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum’, and I found in the first interlude something so simple and beautiful- the origin of dynamic laws. I’ll begin by laying...